RE: Upper Midwest Pinhole Get-together - Wow

Tom - sounds like you guys had an exciting time - an impressive gathering and program. Thanks for letting us know how things turned out.

Gregg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Miller [mailto:twmiller@mr.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 10:47 AM
> To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Upper Midwest Pinhole Get-together - Wow
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> Bill Erickson and I would like to thank all who participated in
> yesterday's "Pinhole: Informal Forum," also known as the "Upper
> Midwest Pinhole Get-together," at the pARTs Photographic Arts Gallery
> in Minneapolis. The event was a success and an inspiration for both
> presenters and attendees. Also thanks to Gregg Kemp for providing
> internet space on his site and in the "Pinhole Visions" for the for
> forum announcement.
>
> Chris Faust presented work from a series he created about ten years
> ago that placed pinhole cameras in the perspective of a child and
> viewed the world from this playful vantage point. His work included
> an 360-degree, 18 foot long print taken from the inside of a playpen
> by a Cirkut camera fitted with a zone plate. This image is also in
> Pinhole Journal, vol 12 #3. List member Eric Nelson discussed how he
> incorporates pinhole photography into his junior high art classes. He
> also showed several of his own and his students' images. Derrick
> Burbul, from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, showed his
> multi-pinhole camera that takes five 4x5 exposures at once, as well as
> images made with the camera. John Campbell
> (http://www.pinholeday.org/2001/photo_79.html) showed his work done
> mostly with pinholes mounted on Leicas and also on a Nikon digital
> camera. Andrew Kamin (www.pinholeplanet.com) demonstrated his
> prototype dual focal length 4x5 camera and showed several
> transparancies made with this camera. Bill Erickson presented several
> platinum prints and a cyanotype from recent travel to Ireland.
> Attendees who stayed for the question/answer/network session saw some
> of my dual-slit color photos from the Iconclast series.
>
> The pARTs Gallery staff was excited by the enthusiastic turnout. I'll
> be working with them on the possibility of having pARTs be a local /
> regional center for next year's Pinhole Day.
>
> Tom Miller
>
>
>
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Received on Mon Nov 5 13:08:21 2001